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Raising the Estimate of Sea-Level Rise
… Picture a plastic bowl. Put a large piece of ice in it—one tall enough that it rises high above the bowl’s rim. Now melt the ice. The bowl will catch most …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard Research Funding Cuts Are Illegal, Judge Rules
… The Trump administration ’s decision to freeze more than $2.2 billion of Harvard’s research funding was unconstitutional, a … services.” Ramanathan, who studies how stem cells give rise to complex tissues in the human embryo, lost grants …
Predicting the Future of China's Rise
… Lawrence H. Summers lived up to his billing as a voice of opposition Wednesday evening at a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) discussion on China’s rise as an economic power and its rivalry with the United States. Timed to the Beijing Olympics, the event …
This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'
… High above the Earth , in orbits crowded with satellites and debris, a silent traffic crisis is unfolding. With thousands of discarded and broken human objects whizzing around the … orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise. … As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger …
The Rise of Faculty Centrism
… Politically, U.S. professors are less liberal than many people believe, but their ranks also include fewer conservatives than in the … Only 20 percent voted for George Bush in 2004. The rise in centrism, the study authors say, seems to have come …
Issue: January-February 2008
Yurong “Luanna” Jiang, M.P.A. ’25, Graduate English Address: “Our Humanity”
… in Mongolia, I got a call from two classmates in Tanzania. They had a very urgent question: how to use their washing … all study together here at Harvard. That moment reminds me of something I used to believe when I was a kid: that the … It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one. When I met my 77 classmates from 34 …
Trade Cards in the Age of Invention
… In the United States, the late nineteenth century was an age of … … 223 … A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture. … A nineteenth-century advertising …
Issue: July-August 2021
University Housing on the Rise
… More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students … some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in the Riverside area of Cambridge, near Mather House and … large, two-section building by Kyu Sung Woo Architects will rise on Memorial Drive. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Modern World Reconceived
… Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New … rich through entrepreneurship and the funding of enterprise, of the officials of states and government who see …
Issue: May-June 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
… she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel, an autonomous … between people and AI technologies, raises a host of ethical and proto-legal questions. What moral obligations … applications. Consider a prosaic-seeming social change: machines are already being given the power to make …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Rise of the Wind Industry
… As the Chinese , Spanish, Indian, and American governments subsidize the growth of wind technology as a source of renewable energy, they’re … to government subsidization, within a larger context of the rise of green businesses in multiple industries, including …
Issue: March-April 2012
Rise of the Little Guy
… a contract with a big record company; an author needed the promotional help of a commercial publisher. But no longer, points out Nicco … has its pluses, for sure. In the case of entertainment, the rise of the Internet has made it easier for the public to …
Issue: September-October 2013
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
… When Harvard first-year students moved into the Yard in late August, the annual ritual arrived with a difference: every member of the class of 2029 had already taken a 90-minute online … social networks, and figuring out how operate the laundry machines. When the campus was shut down in 2020, Zoom-based …
River Mid-Rise
… The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard … Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2003
The Authoritarian Reflex
… days after Donald Trump surged through Super Tuesday toward the Republican presidential nomination, Harvard political … point. In a survey from 2011—well before the candidate’s rise—44 percent of Americans without college degrees approved of having a …
Issue: March-April 2020